Glenlea

Glenlea is a villa built in 1803 by George Tappen, the College surveyor. It is constructed of stucco and features a low-pitched slate roof behind a shallow, battlemented parapet that sits over a moulded cornice and plain frieze. The building has two storeys and five bays, with a one-storey extension to the right and a one-storey, two-bay extension to the left, along with a two-storey, one-bay wing at the back. The central three bays project forward and include ground-floor quadrant bays that lead to an Ionic, tetrastyle portico, which has a frieze, cornice, and pediment. The entrance door is flanked by blank, round-arched niches between pilasters. The villa features sash windows with glazing bars; the quadrant bay windows are round-arched, while the first-floor windows in the central projecting section have cambered arches. The outer bay to the right has a tripartite sash window with a console-bracketed cornice and a blind box on the ground floor, and a sash window with a sill band in a round-arched recess above. The right extension has blank windows with cambered arches. The outer left bay contains sash windows with cambered arches on both floors, as do the left extension. The interior has not been inspected.